Cemetery Road Speed Measures

Work is now almost complete on a £195,000 scheme, which has been part funded by Sustran, to stop drivers speeding along one of Scunthorpes straightest stretches of road. The major road safety improvement scheme along the entire length of the town's Cemetery Road will see a 20mph zone introduced for the first time.

To prevent motorists breaking the law, the road has been raised to the same level as the pavement at Cemetery Road's junction with Hampton Road and anther is planned for the junction with East Common Lane. There are also raised pedestrian crossing outside the main entrance to the Brumby Engineering College and horizontal and vertical traffic-calming features, including a chicane and speed cushions further along the road.

Local residents are reported as saying they are fed up with taxis racing each other late at night and boy racers early in the morning often at 60mph to 70mph in a 30mph zone. These new speed measures should help combat that and it's hoped the improvements will make a real difference and help drive speed down.

so would some one please tell me, what is wrong with a drop curb nowadays! the whole town is slowly be brought to a stand still as these stupendous speed bumps have been put in. I particularly would love to meet the person who decided to put the ones in just off the A18 Kingsway around the hospital, now that the cars leave the A18 slam on the brakes as they go over the ramps it is only a matter of time before a major rear ender crash happens on possible the busiest road in Scunthorpe. However, I would also ask: why have they been put in near the hospital. When an ambulance is heading towards the hospital with a patient that has a spinal injury the last thing that wants to be happening is for them to be jilted over speed bumps that rival mount Everest!
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dangerous too busy avoiding obstructions , child may run out in road , icy weather skidding , accident waiting to happen , just putting money in road builders pocket , not much thought about safety , cycle lanes good idea but find one that's not got a car parked on it , waste of cash more police needed to control parking and speeding .

Well as the residents seem infavour of all these speed retarding efforts, I just hope they never have need of the emergancy services. The extra time it takes an ambulance to arrive could mean the difference between life and death.

I love the idea of a system of sensors that raise the angle of these speed bumps when they detect a speeding vehicle. I can just see the boy racers doing a 'Dukes of Hazzard' when they hit a speed bump at 60 mph that 'just appeared from nowhere'! You'd think that unlikely, but I've seen police reality TV series showing cars trying to sneek down bus lanes following a bus, only to end up with their cars impaled on bollards which spring up after the bus passes!
As far as Cemetery Road is concerned, the raised pedestrian crossings aren't too severe, unlike those along Cottage beck Road. I'm all in favour of traffic calming measures, but if you have a small/medium sized, car they are ridiculously high. Whoever thought that they would be a good measure to use either side of the council recyling centre obviously never gave thought to trailers having their loads thrown off! There's always refuse in the road thereabouts.

I would be in favour of traffic calming measures if they only targeted the law /rule breakers.
If the legal speed limit on a stretch of road 30 mph, then surely you should be able to do that speed( apart from adverse weather conditions) with out risk of damage to your vehicle.
For the amount this has cost, I would expect a system of sensors that raise the angle of these speed bumps when they detect a speeding vehicle ,thus penalising only the guilty instead of the law abiders as well.

Here's a novel idea, instead of punishing us law abiding drivers by installing raised crossing to knacker our suspensions on, and giving us obstacles to navigate around, why dont we try punishing the minority that drive like morons??? Anyone caught doing 60 or 70 mph in a residential area gets a life driving ban, you wouldnt need to dish out many before the problem dissapears!

It seems to me that the detractors of these traffic-calming measures don't live on Cemetery Road. They complain because they can no longer use this residential road like a 'rat run' or major traffic route for their own convenience. I don't doubt that if only a 20 mph speed limit had been imposed without the calming measures, that they would be the first to then complain about delays to their journey and 'back door' taxation of motorists. Also, as road users don't respect the current 30 mph speed limit, why would they adhere to the 20 mph limit? It's far better to force a reduction in speed. I recommend allowing longer for a trip and learning to relax and enjoy the journey.
To the suggestion that £200,000 would fund a police officer to police the road for ten years, it doesn't add up. I bet that the typical cost of an officer including their salary and additional costs would be at least £40,000 p.a.. Then consider that the road would need at least 5 officers to cover the road 24/7. So, £195,000 wouldn't cover the cost of one years full time policing. Whereas, as a permanent investment, spread over next several decades, it's very cost effective. Many years ago, I read an article that worked out all of the direct and indirect costs to the wider community of a road death. It may surprise many to hear that the total average cost was almost a million pounds. So this investment is financially worthwhile to all.
To those who question whether or not the changes are justified, remember that there has been a death on this road less than three years ago. Not a school child, but a grandmother on her cycle.
In my twenty years living here, I have seen many speeding 'boy racers', taxi drivers, motorbike riders and other inconsiderate drivers speeding along Cemetery Road at speeds around the national limit. I welcome the changes.

All they will do is move the traffic to another road, which is also ill equipped to deal with the extra traffic. All these problems ultimately come back to a large amount of workers having to cross Queens/Kingsway at rush hour. With only a handful of routes available, they will all have traffic.
Cemetery road is never going to improve unless there are alternative routes across. A friend of mine lives on that road, and I can tell from what I have seen that the boy racers now think they are F1 drivers, with chicanes to navigate. Great improvement